INTERPOL TRAINING CHIEF AND POLAND'S DEFENCE LEARNING GURU AT TOP SECURITY CONFERENCE

Dr Piotr Gawliczek

Dale Sheehan, the Director of Training at INTERPOL, will join leading figures from the world of security training at this year’s Security and Defence Learning conference, which will take place in Berlin on December 1st. Other keynote speakers will include Poland’s top specialist on innovation in defence and security training, Dr Piotr Gawliczek, a Navy captain based at the National Defence University in Warsaw.

AFRICAN CYBER CHAOS: A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN

Blaise Campaore, President
of Burkina Faso, and Faure
Gnassingbe, President of Togo

“Cyber security in Africa is a major problem, which urgently needs the world’s attention,“ New Security Foundation Chairman, Dr Harold Elletson, told participants at the African ICT Best Practices Forum in Ouagadougou.

THE LATEST EDITION OF NEW SECURITY LEARNING IS OUT NOW

HOW ICTs CAN HELP BUILD PEACE, SECURITY AND STABILITY

Lusaka, Thursday 27 May “Information and communication Technologies (ICTs) can play a major role in building peace, security and stability in some of the most troubled places on the planet,“ says New Security Foundation Chairman, Dr Harold Elletson.
Dr Elletson was speaking at the eLearning Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia during a session hosted by the New Security Foundation and involving participants from all over Africa.
“Terror, corruption, exploitation, hatred and hostility all thrive in ignorance and darkness. That is one of the reasons why education, learning and training, even at the most basic level, are so important. And it is why, when they are combined with the global reach that new methods of communication can now offer, they have the potential to bring about real and lasting change. They can bring light into the darkness, transforming despair into hope, ignorance into knowledge and misfortune into opportunity.“

S&DL 2010: SEND US A PROPOSAL

The New Security Foundation has issued a call for papers for its annual conference on security training. Security and Defence Learning 2010 will take place in Berlin on December 1st and the organisers are keen to receive proposals for presentations on subjects within the general area of technology-assisted learning for security, defence and emergency services. Topics for discussion at this year’s conference are likely to include cyber security, medical training, autonomous learning tools, robotics and future conflict learning.

TRAINING NOT EQUIPMENT KEY TO
CYBER SECURITY, SAYS EXPERT

Jay Bavisi

One of the world’s leading specialists on cyber security and hacking told participants at Security and Defence Learning 2009 that “equipment-based security solutions” were “easy” to circumvent. Jay Bavisi, President of EC-Council, whose company employs “ethical hackers” to test the security systems of major organisations including, the Pentagon, said that better training was the key to eliminating the problem. He said it was vital to abandon the “equipment-based security mentality” and to focus instead on training and best practice.

TOP SECURITY TRAINERS AT BERLIN CONFERENCE

Peter-Martin
Meier

Senior figures from the Swiss Police; INTERPOL; the Scottish Police; NATO, the Ministry of Justice of Brazil and the UK Emergency Planning College joined other leading experts on security training in Berlin on December 2nd for this year’s ‘Security and Defence Learning 2009’, the fifth International Conference on Technology Assisted Learning for Security , Defence and Emergency Services.

EDUCATION ‘FORGOTTEN’ IN POST-CONFLICT AID

“Education is the forgotten aspect of post-conflict humanitarian aid and aid for refugees”, New Security Foundation Chairman Dr Harold Elletson told delegates at a ground-breaking workshop on ‘post-conflict distance learning’ during ‘eLearning Africa’ in Dakar, Senegal. Dr Elletson reminded delegates that nine years earlier in Dakar, the World Education Forum had set the target of universal primary education for every child by 2015, which was adopted as one of the UN’s millennium goals. “However, over 100 million children still don’t attend primary school. And, of these, 50 per cent are in countries which are either suffering from conflict or recovering from it.”

E-LEARNING AND POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTION

How can education and training survive conflict and catastrophe?
In war zones and regions devastated by a natural disaster, the education needs of the population can easily be overlooked. Yet, experience in Afghanistan suggests that education should be a fundamental part of any reconstruction package and e-learning offers an effective, affordable solution to many problems.

SECURITY TRAINING UNDER SCRUTINY

The latest trends in security training will be under scrutiny at ‘Security And Defence Learning 2009’ in Berlin on December 2nd. A call for papers has been issued by the New Security Foundation, which hosts the conference, and key themes are likely to include the future of gaming and simulation, training for the growing cyber threat to critical infrastructure and the potential impact of new developments, such as Web 3.0 and ‘brain science,’ on security and security training.